Re: 2.6.19-rc5: grub is much slower resuming from suspend-to-disk than in 2.6.18

From: Stefan Seyfried
Date: Tue Jan 02 2007 - 05:11:13 EST


On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 08:05:24PM +0100, Lee Garrett wrote:
> Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > [...]
> >This is rather funny; in 2.6.19-rc5 grub is *really* slow loading kernel when I switch on the
> >system after suspend to disk. Actually, after kernel has been loaded, the whole resuming (up to
> >the point I have usable desktop again) takes about three time less than the process of loading
> >kernel + initrd. During loading disk LED is constantly lit. This almost looks like kernel leaves
> >HDD in some strange state, although I always assumed HDD/IDE is completely reinitialized in this
> >case.
> > [...]
>
> I had the same problem (/boot on reiserfs, grub hanging for ages after resume
> with 2.6.19), but in 2.6.19.1 it seems fixed. Do you still have this bug,
> Andrey? I didn't find an update on this issue on LKML.

I'm pretty sure this is just a coincidence, an issue about how the kernel
image is actually layed out on your filesystem. I don't think it actually
has to do anything with the version.
--
Stefan Seyfried
QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices | "Any ideas, John?"
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg | "Well, surrounding them's out."
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